Plenty is a play by
David Hare, first performed in 1978, about British post-war disillusion. Susan Traherne, a former secret agent, is a woman conflicted by the contrast between her past, exciting triumphs—she had worked behind enemy lines as a
Special Operations Executive courier in Nazi-occupied France during
World War II—and the mundane nature of her present life, as the increasingly depressed wife of a
diplomat whose career she has destroyed. Viewing society as
morally bankrupt, Susan has become self-absorbed, bored, and destructive — the slow deterioration in her
mental health mirrors the crises in the ruling class of post-war
Britain.